George H W Bush: "Proud to be an Aggie"

[StellaBlue]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

:rofl:

Just watching the A&M v. SMU game... and they just ahd one of those university commercials. UT's is GREAT.

But the A&M one is hilarious. It features GHWBush saying, 'Proud to be an Aggie', all smiles. hahahahahaha. First of all, other than putting his library there, what the hell kind of connection does he have to A&M (Yalie! Yalie!). Second, that commercial will make the non-Bushbots NEVER want to go there. Talk about preaching to the choir. Only salivating RWers would like that commercial. But I bet they are all at home now, mesmerized, drooling in front of the screen, hearts about to burst with pride.

hahahahahaha

[MuseRider]

1. Gee

he just screams aggies to me. :shrug:

Short pants no scrunch, cowboy boots with no manure on them, afraid of livestock and a cowboy hat that is sweat and dust free and does not match his boots. Yup, aggie.

Edit I just saw the HW, sorry, wrong cowboy

[StellaBlue]

2. haha

Yes - HW. I think even the Aggies know that, to the general public, W would be too divisive a spokesman.

But I found it hilarious and totally spot-on re: A&M's target audience. If UT did that, there would be a mass riot on campus. hahahaha. We should get that talking, joke-telling LBJ automaton to do a commercial for us. He could tell Aggie jokes.

:rofl:

Sorry, I just make myself chuckle.

[MuseRider]

4. In many ways

LBJ was always good for a chuckle.

[StellaBlue]

20. Just for laughs

http://www.mackwhite.com/lbj.html

(snip)

"It was like stepping inside Johnson’s brain and being privy to his internal monologue, a stream of words just beneath the level of consciousness, everything in dream language, nonsensical and strange."


hahaha

[MuseRider]

32. "If only it had been that easy to shut him up in the Sixties," I said.

HA HA

I can't remember exactly but one of my Aunts sisters was married to one of LBJ's brothers (I think he had a brother Sam?) I can't entirely recall the story. He was not a popular man with my family so nobody spoke of it much. I do remember hearing stories like the ones told in your link. He was not well liked for many reasons but partially it was from the stories of the sister.

[StellaBlue]

36. That is interesting and really cool

I have that GIGANTIC biography of him, but I have never gotten around to starting on it.

I would like to know more about his initial, ballot-stealing election, though...

[MuseRider]

38. He is fascinating

in many ways. I once saw a really good documentary on him but as usual, I fell asleep and remember only a little bit of it....hazard of being a narcoleptic.

Maybe one of these days I can get with my Aunt and find out stuff. She is a big fundie so I kind of stay away but she is also a good woman and I would really like to know more.

Apparently he would stop at nothing to win. I would love to read that too. I should order one, it would be interesting.

I am cracking up at the thought of an animatronic LBJ that comes to life when you plunk your ass down in a chair. Seems appropriate doesn't it?

[StellaBlue]

44. indeed

It sort of reminds me of how I feel inside when I remember that my university's mascot is a big, stoned cow.

[MuseRider]

53. LOL

I have a wonderful book about my area called, "Cows Are Freaky When They Look At You" about the Kaw Valley Hemp Pickers of the 60's. Your mascot reminded me of that book only it wasn't the cows that were stoned.

[Lochloosa]

57. Muse...I have been meaning to ask you. That trumpet...and I assume

it is a trumpet. The pic, what is it and is there any significance behind it?

[MuseRider]

58. Nope

it is a clarinet. That is the instrument that I play so that is the only significance other than the fact that I really liked the graphic. :hi:

[Lochloosa]

59. Your right it is a clarinet

:7

It is a nice graphic...reminds me of one of my Jazz Fest posters from Jacksonville...

[Lethe]

39. Barr McClellan is Scott's dad

he wrote the book that claims LBJ killed Kennedy.

that robot thing is freaky, man

[StellaBlue]

3. PS

Am I really slow, or is that trumpet saying something to me in Arabic?

[MuseRider]

5. Not slow

just wrong instrument. It is a clarinet, the instrument I play. Those are the keys done in a stylized manner, not writing or letters. Don't feel slow, you are about the 100th person to ask that.

[StellaBlue]

9. aaaah

I see!

[AspenRose]

6. As a democrat who survived being at A&M....

I'm glad I didn't see the commercial.

People forget that Lyle Lovett, Henry Cisneros, and John Sharp (all liberals) went to A&M too. But don't hold your breath in seeing them in a commercial or having a dorm named after them anytime soon.

And feel free to donate to the Aggie Democrats! They're in the belly of the beast in B/CS.

[StellaBlue]

10. Indeed.

Poor suckers.

If I win the lottery, I will donate to the Aggie Democrats right after I set up the Freethought Club at my high school.

Ooh, I am bad...

[Lethe]

7. he has a street too

i have to live here in the midst of all these retarded RW aggie sacks of SH*T. This is like a backwards, retarded, RW paradise. Someone help me!!!!

[aTm_exrugger]

8. George Bush Pkwy intersect with coke street

I always thought that was funny

[Eurobabe]

12. are you serious??

I'll ask my friend who works in College Station. He hates it there.

[Lethe]

14. THIS IS TRUE HAHAHAH!

George Bush Dr interesects with Coke St.

OMG if i had a digital camera i would so take a picture of it. Man, i gotta find someone here that has one.

you can even look it up at maps.google.com

[Lethe]

23. just drove by the intersection...

it is one of those green signs with both of the street names at 90 degree angles. It would make for a perfect picture.

[StellaBlue]

29. take it, take it!

Then we can make it into T-shirts!

haha

Actually, we should email Jon Stewart... one of his correspondents could go there and do a report - right from that corner!!!

[StellaBlue]

13. Okay, that's hilarious.

You should take a picture of the signs (on the intersection) and send it to Jay Leno's headlines.

3000 W Alameda Avenue


hahahaha

[StellaBlue]

11. If you don't mind me asking

What the HELL are you doing there?

Are you learning about the latest chemical feeds for sheep or something? Are you on an ADM-sponsored course of postgraduate research?

:scared:

And is it true that there is only one bar in the whole town... the Dixie somethingorother?

[Lethe]

15. *sigh* i moved from Austin to here because of a job

but i quit my job because I couldn't stand working with these people. (they are all RW aggies at work too) I've been looking for work back in Austin now.

[StellaBlue]

16. HEY!

Good luck!

I am looking for work in Austin, too! From the scary depths of East Texas...

[Lethe]

26. good luck to you too!

what kind of work are you looking for?

[StellaBlue]

30. paid

haha

Seriously, research/analysis/writing/editing type of thing.

Et toi?

[Lethe]

33. sick of the 8-5

i'm a IT/programmer guy, but i cant stand doing it anymore.....i dunno what i'll do

[StellaBlue]

35. I know how you feel

I REALLY want to avoid the rat race, but not sure how. So I am taking some time out (having just returned from living abroad for four years, ending a long relationship, etc., etc.).

I just know I need to be in Austin. But that I can't afford to live there as a waitress. Not with my student loan repayments.

Good luck to you - I would rather be in East Texas than College Station, that's for sure. Were you HIGH when you thought that would be a good idea?

haha

[Lethe]

49. it's a long story....

but basically I was lured by a high paying job, among other things.

I won't make that mistake twice....money is definitely not everything.

[AspenRose]

61. Dixie Chicken...and no, there's Duddley's Draw too

El Pollo Dixie is where the good ol' boys go and Dud's hosts a more diverse clientele....bikers...

[GOPisEvil]

42. It's Jersey Street dammit!!!!

The city council of College Station changed the name to entice him to put his library there.

[StellaBlue]

45. Yeah

I still call 26th Street in Austin 26th Street, too... none of this 'Dean Keeton' crap from me.

Anyone who spawned Carol Keeton McClellan Strayhorn Rylander Strayhorn... well...

[GOPisEvil]

47. At least he was a Democrat, if I remember correctly.

To protest after the name change, any time I had to give directions using Jersey/Bush, I used the Jersey name. It'll always be Jersey to me, dammit.

I hear the Aggie Democrats are really active now. They weren't when I was a student. That reminds me, I need to order one of their shirts.

[StellaBlue]

52. I bet they are

Poor things.

Do you think they make a shirt that says: 'Longhorns Supporting Aggie Democrats' ? I'll buy one!

When I was in Europe, I had two bumper stickers on my car:

Don't Mess With Texas Women (needless to say, they didn't get the joke - but other Americans did!)

and

Another Texan Against Bush

[AspenRose]

62. It will ALWAYS be Jersey to me!

Hey GOPisEvil :hi: :thumbsup:

Looks like they beat the Ponies today....

Class of '90 here. Send Blue Bell. :-)

[HereSince1628]

17. Hey, it's time to AGGIE this thread! Aggies MUSTER NOW!

Even if you were a 2-per when you attended.

If you didn't attend A&M you can NEVER appreciate it. It is much like having gone to Catholic School in the late 1950's.

Everyone can tell stories they've heard, but you had to live the experience. As a grad student I don't really get to claim I'm an Aggie.

PhD Texas AM 1988.

[StellaBlue]

19. Oh. My. God.

[StellaBlue]

27. The only differences I can tell between Texas A&M and my high school:

1. A&M has 50x more students.

2. A&M has few black students outside the athletics dept.

3. A&M has no art department.

4. My hometown, population 25,000, has more cultural activities and better landscaping.

I never understood why ANYONE would voluntarily go there, or what it is they are so excited about. A lot like the GOP.

:P




(edited for faulty photo)

[StellaBlue]

37. so... where are all the Aggies?

Or are they mustering over in Freeperland?

haha

Just kidding - was watching them play earlier... I always root for the Aggies against foreigners. But I am still wearing my orange T-shirt.

[GOPisEvil]

41. Right here.

:hi:

[alarimer]

43. I am a current Aggie grad student

in the Wildlife and Fisheries Dept. I am only part-time as I have a fulltime job in Corpus Christi so I am rarely on campus and get to miss a lot of stuff. But it has a really good program in my field. ANd it is very interesting but you can tell the wildlife folks from the fisheries folks very easily. The wildlife types (and I am generalizing broadly here) are corn-fed, frat boy types (you basic stereotypical Aggie) and the fisheries folks are not (a lot of the guys have long hair and most people wear Teva's and there is a high percentage of women in the fisheries program). But the university is more diverse than it usually gets credit for being. The town, however, is a lost cause, university or no university.

[StellaBlue]

46. I've only been there once (I mean STOPPED in the town)

That was when I went to a party freshman year.

And I woke up, in my friend's boyfriend's apartment, with a pistol next to my head. Seriously.

In Austin you might wake up with a bong or something next to your head, but not a PISTOL, for Christ's sake. It was wild.

But that was the night we discovered Wesley Willis, so it wasn't all a loss.

[0007]

18. junior will be embracing Bobby Knight this fall and saying

Texas Tech is his team.

[StellaBlue]

21. He should just put his library in the Skull & Bones lodge

...or whatever it's called.

I mean, they need another three books for their satanic collection, right?

Putting it at Tech is an insult to West Texas. SMU would be better.

[0007]

24. LOL!!

junior's as phoney as a professional wrestler, and twice as corny.

[StellaBlue]

22. Hey, look what I just found!

http://atheist.tamu.edu/~blemoine/top_ten.html

[cory817]

25. Bush Jrs library

Has it been decided yet where * will have his library, with UT and A&M already gone to LBJ and Bush Sr and those being the two prominent public Texas Universities. I'm guessing SMU it fits his drunken spoiled frat boy persona. I think the next largest public school would be Texas Tech or maybe one of the UT branches like UT Arlington/ElPaso/SanAntonio.
Maybe he'll buck the library trend and go for something involving less reading.

[Lethe]

28. maybe they'll just dedicate the children's section of his daddy's library

that would be about appropriate for him

[StellaBlue]

31. : )

:rofl:

I think he should just get the kiddie roving neighborhood library bus.

[AspenRose]

63. SMU

I thought I heard it was SMU.

[StellaBlue]

34. A few Texas Exes.

(the one on the left)












(the one being kissed)

[GOPisEvil]

40. I should mail my diploma back to A&M.

George Bush is no fucking Aggie. I EARNED the right to call myself that. George did his usual and BOUGHT his way to success. Fuck him and his whole fucking family.

[StellaBlue]

48. I feel your pain.

I understand they aren't Aggies; they're not Texans, either, as I always point out to people.

F*ckers.

[StellaBlue]

50. Speaking of...

I am trying to figure out how to get excommunicated, short of an assassination attempt on the pope... it's very difficult to not be counted by the Vatican among their millions of members worldwide...

Any ideas?

haha

[Lethe]

54. now that sounds like a fun and worthwhile enterprise!

be hedonistic, blasphemous, irreverant, and impious to the extreme!

....and dont forget to record it all on videotape and mail footage to them regularly! HAHA

[StellaBlue]

56. That would be funny/criminal

Send them anonymous videotapes of myself wearing a Spanish-style black lace veil over my whole face, saying 'Death to Catholicism! Death to Catholicism!' or some such.

muhahahaha (wrings hands malevolently)

[StellaBlue]

51. And just to really be rude:

Texas/Texas A&M all-time football series Wins/Losses/Ties

72 (Texas) 34 (Texas A&M) 5 (ties)

And, surprisingly, we're still up 55/39/5 on Oklahoma...

Sorry, having been abroad for so long, I am REALLY getting into football this year. :D

[StellaBlue]

55. Re: our UT/A&M thing

Look what I just found:

"Did you know Austin is rated...
Best city to Live in the United States
source: FreeRepublic.com (2003)"

from http://www.texassports.com/index.php?s=&change_well_id=2&url_article_id=1518

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[txindy]

60. An Aggie?! He ain't no Aggie! I'm a Longhorn & even I say it's an insult

It's insulting to Aggies for Senior to call himself an Aggie. Good grief.